Question on setup.exe

Jeremy Bopp jeremy@bopp.net
Mon Jun 14 14:32:00 GMT 2010


On 6/14/2010 9:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> assume I had a cygwin installation on one computer with the local package directory located in c:\mylocalpackage.
> 
> Is it possible to copy this directory to a other  computer  and use the -L flag (local install) to install a identical copy of my Cygwin installation without  access to the net ??(because the content of the local package dir constist of dirs corresponding to the Cygwin mirrors)

Yes, that is possible.  Just be aware that the second computer will only
be able to install whatever packages were downloaded to the first
computer.  The local package directory is not a complete mirror.

-Jeremy

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